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Hagerskans Jewelry

These raw and beautiful rings by Swedish designer Paula Hagerskans are inspired by natural forms, such as lichen, seeds, tree bark, and moth wings.

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Tabaimo’s immersive, haunting video installations delve into the complex contemporary psyche, exploring themes of isolation, anxiety, and malaise. Surreal and a little unnerving, lovely and delicate and nightmarish, they are evocative of traditional Japanese woodblock prints and combine hand-drawing with computer animation. An exhibition of Tabaimo’s works is currently at the Seattle Asian Art Museum.

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Anne La Fever’s “Arts and Sciences”

A collection of Anne La Fever’s whimsical collage works combining vintage anatomical illustrations with natural history motifs is currently exhibiting at the Ghost Gallery in Seattle.

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The Color of Pomegranates

The Color of Pomegranates is an exquisite cinematic experience, quietly, abstractly dazzling and chimerical. This beautiful avant-garde 1968 Armenian film by director Sergei Parajanov is a non-narrative, impressionistic, and highly stylized biography of 18th-century poet Sayat-Nova. Composed of a series of moving tableaux or vignettes and prominently featuring Parajanov’s muse, the enigmatic beauty Sofiko Chiaureli, the movie is divided into eight chapters: Childhood, Youth, The Prince’s Court, The Monastery, The Dream, Old Age, The Angel of Death, and Death. It has little dialogue, though there are sound and music. Existing almost as pure visual poetry, it extravagantly abounds with surreal, symbolic imagery and is such a distinct piece of visionary cinema.

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Danny van Ryswyk

Amsterdam-based artist Danny van Ryswyk currently has a solo exhibition at Roq la Rue in Seattle, Tender Loving Darkness, featuring sculptures first created digitally in a 3D program, then rendered by a 3D printer and refined and hand-painted by the artist, and finally housed in vintage bell jars.

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Tsutomu Kawakami

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Henrik Aa. Uldalen

The hauntingly lovely paintings of Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen convey a quality of photosurrealism, depicting figures entranced in a suspended, limbo-like state of delirious serenity, sleep, or swoon.

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Chiharu Shiota

This beautiful and violently colored installation was created by Chiharu Shiota with two rustic, aged boats, a maze of red yarn, and over 50,000 keys collected from the public from around the world.

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The Sonnets to Orpheus: XXV by Rainer Maria Rilke

But you now, dear girl, whom I loved like a flower whose
name
I didn’t know, you who so early were taken away:
I will once more call up your image and show it to them,
beautiful companion of the unsubduable cry.

Dancer whose body filled with your hesitant fate,
pausing, as though your young flesh had been cast in bronze;
grieving and listening–. Then, from the high dominions,
unearthly music fell into your altered heart.

Already possessed by shadows, with illness near,
your blood flowed darkly; yet, though for a moment
suspicious,
it burst out into the natural pulses of spring.

Again and again interrupted by downfall and darkness,
earthly, it gleamed. Till, after a terrible pounding,
it entered the inconsolably open door.

– Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)

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Artwork by C7

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